Laurie Daley recounts how the Canberra Raiders were signed by Super League 25 years ago

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Laurie Daley recounts how the Canberra Raiders were signed by Super League 25 years ago
Laurie Daley

It's hard to believe that 25 years have flown by this week since the ARL-Super League war kicked off. It was the night all hell was about to break loose in rugby league and I was right in the thick of it. Everything changed when the Canberra Raiders were in Townsville to take on the Cowboys on April 1 1995.

They laid it all out for me and then cut to the chase. They offered me a seven-year deal that was worth eight or nine times what I was currently earning at the Raiders and said if I signed there and then, I could walk out with a cheque that was equivalent to the money I'd earned for the entire 1994 season.

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[fulivai]

1995 was our first trip to Townsville, we won a tight game for memory. It really is unbelievable that's 25 years ago but then again given its the same amount of time we haven't won a comp, feels like another lifetime ago.

[FuiFui BradBrad]

Mat Rogers goes into this in a bit of depth on the Betoota Advocate podcast. Was really good insight

[Botman]

Content is a problem right now. Ink has to be spilt and pages need to filled... but Daley already gave a considerably indepth insight in his experience in his book haha